Hilal Hilal

Hilal Hilal (1966-) was Assistant Regional Secretary of the Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party from 10 July 2013, succeeding Mohammed Saeed Bekheitan.

Biography
Hilal Hilal was born in 1966 to a Muslim family in Syria, and he served two terms as a member of the Aleppo Governorate Branch Command of the Syrian Regional Branch of the Ba'ath Party, and on 10 July 2013 he was appointed the new Assistant Regional Secretary of the Syrian Regional Branch, effectively making him Bashar al-Assad's number two in the leadership of the party during the Syrian Civil War. Hilal was also the founder of the Ba'ath Brigades, an almost entirely-Sunni militia that fought for the Syrian Arab Republic against the rebels in the civil war.